[Rarebooks] FS: THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR VOITURE. Trans. Pope.

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent); Alexander Pope; Etienne Martin 
Pinchesne, sieur de; John Dryden; John Dennis. THE WORKS OF MONSIEUR 
VOITURE. IN TWO VOLUMES. ... TRANSLATED BY THE MOST EMINENT HANDS, 
... THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED THROUGHOUT BY THE LAST 
EDITION PRINTED AT PARIS. ADDRESSED TO MISS BLOUNT, BY MR. POPE. 
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, E. Curll, and J. Pemberton, 1736. 
Port. frontis, xxiv, 300 pp., xxxiii; 132 pp. + 287 pp. Head and tail 
pieces: initials. 16mo. Full calf boards, ruled and lightly embossed; 
raised bands, red morocco spine labels;  all edges red (hardback). 
Third edition.

Vincent Voiture (1598-1648), French poet, won the favor of Richelieu, 
and was one of the earliest academicians. His verse delighted the 
coteries, and were the most admired of any of his contemporaries. 
"His prose letters are full of lively wit, and, in some cases, as in 
the letter on Richelieu's policy (Letter LXXIV.), show considerable 
political penetration. He ranks with Jean de Balzac as the chief 
director of the reform in French prose which accompanied that of 
Malherbe in French verse." Life of Voiture, written by his nephew, M. 
de Pinchesne.

Boards rubbed, with a few scuffs to volume 2, spines a bit dry, heads 
a triffle worn, front board of volume 1 detached, endpapers faintly 
darkened, otherwise tight with crisp and clean interiors [23684]. 
$200.00


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